Imperial Palace Lingers

Some casinos make you sentimental and others, well, you are just glad people get to keep their jobs. The Imperial Palace falls into this second category. The casino is best known for having to pay a, at the time, whopping $1.5 million fine in 1989, because its owner, Ralph Englestad (who died in 2002), was caught holding birthday parties for Adolf Hitler. Last year the casino hotel which opened in 1979 was purchased by Harrah's which already owns adjacent properties and so---since this is Las Vegas--- at some point is expected to build a bigger, newer place. However, for the short term, at least, that point has yet to arrive as the Imperial Palace website is taking reservations through all of 2006.